Collecting There is an excellent chance that you have a good starting basis for a button collection right in your own home. Just take a look in the old button box. For some reason or other, it seems that women just don't throw buttons away. The theory is, apparently, that you never know when an odd button will come in handy. Then, somehow, the box gets filled to overflowing, but you are never able to find the right button in it when you need one.

Go through the buttons in your button box and pick out the ones with which you want to start your collection. Of course, if you can get at your mother's or your grandmother's button box, you will probably find some old and unusual specimens.

Button collecting has grown so rapidly in recent years that there is now a National Button Society, located at 436 South Columbia Avenue, Columbus 9, Ohio. The Society publishes The National Button Bulletin, a bi-monthly which is invaluable to collectors. Its cost is $3.50 a year.

You will find much of interest about buttons, too, in Hobbies, Just as postage stamp dealers do, button advertisers in Hobbies offer packets of fifty or one hundred different buttons for $2 or $3. Another way to add to your collection is to swap buttons with other collectors.




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Febuaury 10, 2012